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Patehted June 14, I881.

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CHARLES H. CARTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE MANLEY, OF SUMMIT TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY, AND WASH- INGTON MANLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORT FOR SEWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,752, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed November 15, 1880.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs HARGOURT CARTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Sewing-Machine Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

r 5 This invention relates to that class of rufliing and similar attachments for sewing-machines which are secured to the head of the machine instead of to the bed or presseufoot bar and the object of the invention is to simplify and improve the mode of and means for so securing such attachments.

Before my invention such attachments have been secured to the head of such machines as the Singer andHowe bymeans of a clamp having an ear restiugagainst the baseof the head and bya similar ear and a set-screw applied to'the top of the head. In the class of sewing-machines represented by the Wheeler & Wilson such attachments have been secured 0 to the head bya straight arm,with or without overhanging lugs or lips'applied to the lower boss of the head by means of screws let into holes purposely tapped therein. of attachment are notalways secure, are costly,

3 5 and require in some instances additions to the machine itself.

The object of my invention is to afford a device for attaching rufflin g or other mechanisms directly to the lower boss of particularly that 40 class of machines represented by the Wheeler & WVilson without any modifications or alterations of the machine, and which will be perfectly secure,free from liability to displacement, and readily applied.

4 5 To these ends my invention consists in providing the frame of a ruffling or shirring or other sewing-machineattachmentwith aclamp I constructed to encircle the lower boss or head of the machine, and adapted to be tightened,

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and thereby be firmly, rigidly, and securely 5c held in position, as hereinafter particularly specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figuresof which like parts are similarly designated,Figure 1 is 5 5 a rear elevation of a sewing-machine head with one form of my clamp or support in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the support open and detached. Figs. 3 and 6 are top views, and Figs. 4 and 5 are horizontal longitudinal sections, of modified forms.

a is aframe of aruffling orother attachment. This frame is extended rearwardly into a curved arm, I), having the half 0 of a hinge. Secured to this arm by the other half, 01, and pintle c of this hinge is a swinging curved piece, f. The parts I) and fare curved or 0th erwise shaped to adapt them to the head of the machine for which they are intended. The piece f has a lip, g,screw-tapped and provided with a screw or other fastening device, h, adapted to engage the frame, as in a threaded hole,

t, therein. This support is secured to the head of the machine by placing its parts 12 and f thereabout and securing them together by the 7 5 fastening device It in the positiomshown in Fig. 1, said fastening device perm tting a perfect adjustment of the support about heads of varying contour or having any unevenness by means of the varia'bleness of extent of clamp- In Fig. 3 the hinge c d c is replaced by a screw, 70, the part f being detachable. In Fig. 4 the two parts I) and f are provided with interlockiug curved ends, andin Fig. 5 the part b has a curved slotted end, through which a tongue on the part f extends to lock the parts together. In all these forms the joint is a movable one, permitting a certain amount of contraction or expansion to adapt the support or 0 clamp to variations in the size of the head. This mayalso be accomplished, in a measure, by making the two parts b and fin one castin g with the frame and adj ustably securin g the same to the sewing-machine head by a clamp- 5 ing set screw or screws, 1, arranged in the end or ends of the same. (See Fig. 6.) In all these cases it is deemed essential that the support shall encircle or completely surround the head of the machine and be adjustably held thereto in order to secure that stability of fastening that will insure the rigid attachment of the ruffler, &c., to the machine, and that will permit of its compression or binding thereabout.

What I claim is In a ruffliug or shirring mechanism, a frame provided with a support adapted to encircle or extend entirely about or around the sewing-machine head and be clamped thereto, substantially as described.

2. In a ruffling or shirring attachment, a frame provided with a support therefor adapted to encircle or extend entirely around or about the sewing-machine head,in combination with ascrew or screws extended through said frame or support, to clamp said frame or support firmly to the sewing-machine head, substan tially as described.

3. A support for ruftling or shirring or kindred attachments for sewing-machines, composed of an extension of the frame and a piece movably attached thereto and adapted to be rigidly connected therewith, the two parts bet 25 ing constructed to fit about a sewing-machine head and to be firmly secured thereto, substantiall y as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. H. CARTER.

Witnesses:

WM. H. FrNoKEL, GEO. F. GRAHAM. 

